[SSSD] Documenting the SSSD local domain, management tools, etc

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Wed May 19 08:51:07 UTC 2010


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On 05/19/2010 01:04 AM, David O'Brien wrote:
> Recently it was recommended that I not include the LOCAL domain, nested 
> groups, and related functionality in the end-user doc (limiting it to 
> the man pages). This raises the following issue:
> 
> There is a section in the draft doc at present, "Using the SSSD 
> Management Tools", which includes info on working with users, groups, 
> nested groups, examples, etc., all of which will disappear if we remove 
> LOCAL domains from the topic list. Is this what we want? I know we're 
> moving towards the "SSSD functions transparently in the b/g when needed" 
> approach, but I want to double-check before I remove this section (about 
> 2 pages).
> 
> Thanks

Right now the local domain plus the management tools are usable
primarily for testing, their only benefit is nested groups.

I vote for not documenting them in the deployment guide, but leaving the
documentation in the SSSD sources (manpages, config file example..)
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